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(No Mod elj) W. H. DANIEL. I FEED THOUGH.

No. 443.503. Patented Dec. 80,1890.

- UN TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM H. DANIEL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND \VILLIAM H. PALMER, OF SAME PLACE.

FEED-TROUG H.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 443,503, dated December 30, 1890.

Application filed April 8, 1890. Serial No. 347,125. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. DANIEL, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Feed-Boxes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical cross-section at line 1 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section at line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective View of one of the removable crossbars, looking at the under side of the bar.

It is common to provide feed-boxes for horses with strips extending from the front to the rear walls of such boxes, one near each end, to prevent the horse while eating from throwing the grain in the box over the ends and wasting the same. It is desirable to have such strips firmly secured in place when the box is in use and also so secured that they can be readily removed to enable a number of the feed-boxes to be nested or placed one within another for transportation purposes. This object I accomplish by my invention, as illustrated in the drawings, and as hereinafter described. 1

That which I claim asnew will be pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, A represents a feedbox of ordinary construction, which may be made of galvanized iron or any other suitable material. As shown, its rear wall is made vertical, the better to fit against the wall or other support to which it is to be secured, and its front wall I) and its end walls are inclined so that the box is wider at the top than at the bottom, which construction will allow a number of the boxes to be nested or packed one within another. 4

B is an iron rod at the upper edge of the feed-box, around which the upper end of the material forming the end walls, and the front wall I) is wrapped, as shown. The ends of this rod 13 project a short distance beyond the rear wall a, and are turned down to form hooks 0, one of which is shown in Fig. 1, by

which the box can be secured to eyes or sockets secured to any suitable support.

(1 is another rod, the ends of which can be secured to the rod B, as shown. The upper edge of the wall a is wrapped around this rod d.

C are two bars extending across the feedbox A, one near each end, as shown in Fig. 2. Each bar is provided with a head e, which head, as shown, is formed by turning down one end of the bar, but the head could be formed in any well-known manner and of any desired shape. The bars C serve as guards to prevent horses when eating grain that is in the box from throwingitover the end walls of the box and wasting it.

f is a spring-catch, suitably secured to the under side of the bar C, so as to leave a little space (equal at least to the thickness of the material of which the wall a is made) between the catch and the head 6-.

g are two openings in the rear wall a, and h are two openings in the front wall I), for the passage of the bars C. As shown, each opening g is large enough to admit the bar C and its spring-catch f, while each opening h is only large enough to receive a bar C.

As shown, the bars C are inserted through the openings g and the forward end of each bar inserted through its opening h in the front wall I). As the spring-catch f passes through the opening g it will be pressed against the bar 0 until the free end of the catch passes through the opening. The catch will then spring out into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and by the contact of its free end with the walla will prevent the bar from being accidentally displaced.

Each bar C can be readily removed when desired by pressing the spring-catch f up against the bar and withdrawing the bar through the opening When the bars are removed, the boxes can be nested for transportation. r

The feed-box shown is intended to be re movably affixed, but when it is to be permanently affixed in position itwillbe found more convenient to insert the bars C from the front of the box, in which ease'the larger openings 9 should be made in the front wall I) and the smaller openings h in the rear wall a.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

A feed-box foraninmls, in combination with removable bars C passing through the front and rear walls of the box, each bar having a head (2, and spring-catches for holding the IO bars in position, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM H. DANIEL. Witnesses:

ALBERT II. ADAMS, HARRY T. J ONES. 

